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Hack Your Hellos: the Unofficial Way to Meet Someone New at AAM This Year

Museum 2.0

In addition to reconnecting with old friends and mentors, I want to meet people who aren''t on my radar who will help me learn and grow. In this way, I''ve found my idols / mentors /friends--and learned a lot from their inspiring sessions. I''m getting ready for the American Alliance of Museums conference later this month.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. History remembers Queen Anna Nzinga as one of the great female rulers of Africa.

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Solutionary Women: Nola Brantley of the Scotlan Youth and Family Center

Have Fun - Do Good

She's going to school, you know, she's been able to go home on five day passes to visit her family, and she had come from a history of abuse, too, within the home. prostitution teen Oakland Then she went to the group home, and she's been there for a year now, and she's doing well.

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